Lard will be making a comeback

[oldoaktree]

Saw on the news today that there’s a shortage of sunflower oil and the rest of the veg oils are in short supply too .

 

[choochter]

Good, because it makes chips taste great

 

[Rob Holmes]

Thought you were talking about the DJ

 

[SilliamWhale]

My gran fried everything with lard. And made pastry half butter and half lard.

Never overweight and lived to 89.

There is something in it, however I don't use it but I do fry in butter and try to use butter mostly

 

[Hilly]

Saw on the news today that there’s a shortage of sunflower oil and the rest of the veg oils are in short supply too .

Good veg oil bad for us .

 

[Post Driver]

Sunflower oil: UK bottler has a few weeks' supply left

Makers of oven chips, crisps, ready meals and cereal bars are racing to find alternatives.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[le bon paysan]

Good veg oil bad for us .

My wife's got bad arthritis, been told not to use Sunflower oil as it's inflammatory , bad for the joints!

 

[czechmate]

My wife's got bad arthritis, been told not to use Sunflower oil as it's inflammatory , bad for the joints!

Do limmies make lard?

 

[Exfarmer]

Wife tells me rape oil is far superior. Further Farringtons is the best rape oil, I am not in a position to disagree

 

[oldoaktree]

Wife tells me rape oil is far superior. Further Farringtons is the best rape oil, I am not in a position to disagree

Rapeseed oil also in short supply as everyone wants it

 

[melted welly]

My wife's got bad arthritis, been told not to use Sunflower oil as it's inflammatory , bad for the joints!

This is spot on. My wife had beginning of it in fingers, cut out veg oil products and it went. It’s amazing how quickly the symptoms come back if she falls off the wagon - crisps, biscuits etc.

 

[le bon paysan]

Wife tells me rape oil is far superior. Further Farringtons is the best rape oil, I am not in a position to disagree

Wife uses olive oil to make her bread.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Sunflower oil: UK bottler has a few weeks' supply left

Makers of oven chips, crisps, ready meals and cereal bars are racing to find alternatives.

www.bbc.co.uk

Is it really an "alternative" if it was originally used first???

 

[yellowbelly]

Saw on the news today that there’s a shortage of sunflower oil and the rest of the veg oils are in short supply too .

Been talking to a lass who's very high up in the supply chain to all the big supermarkets and she says it's going to be a big problem.

She's struggling to get top management to realise there's going to be a problem - "Oh, we'll switch to rape oil," they've been telling her. As she's married to a farmer she knows all about why there's less rape about but they don't seem to understand.

She also was telling me how she's trying to get them to source more home grown produce but they're still putting price over food security.
The example she quoted that she'd been dealing with this week was onions. One firm uses Polish grown as it saves the £1M over UK onions.
They are still not prepared to switch even a small percentage over to UK grown to be sure of supply.

She reckons these big firms are just burying their heads in the sand and that sooner or later the sh!t will hit the fan.

 

[Hilly]

Been talking to a lass who's very high up in the supply chain to all the big supermarkets and she says it's going to be a big problem.

She's struggling to get top management to realise there's going to be a problem - "Oh, we'll switch to rape oil," they've been telling her. As she's married to a farmer she knows all about why there's less rape about but they don't seem to understand.

She also was telling me how she's trying to get them to source more home grown produce but they're still putting price over food security.
The example she quoted that she'd been dealing with this week was onions. One firm uses Polish grown as it saves the £1M over UK onions.
They are still not prepared to switch even a small percentage over to UK grown to be sure of supply.

She reckons these big firms are just burying their heads in the sand and that sooner or later the sh!t will hit the fan.

Sooner the better !

 

[Exfarmer]

Been talking to a lass who's very high up in the supply chain to all the big supermarkets and she says it's going to be a big problem.

She's struggling to get top management to realise there's going to be a problem - "Oh, we'll switch to rape oil," they've been telling her. As she's married to a farmer she knows all about why there's less rape about but they don't seem to understand.

She also was telling me how she's trying to get them to source more home grown produce but they're still putting price over food security.
The example she quoted that she'd been dealing with this week was onions. One firm uses Polish grown as it saves the £1M over UK onions.
They are still not prepared to switch even a small percentage over to UK grown to be sure of supply.

She reckons these big firms are just burying their heads in the sand and that sooner or later the sh!t will hit the fan.

The supermaket buyers are changed round very regularly so they do not foem relationships with the producers. It also means they will be long gone before any sh*t hits the fan

 

[wrenbird]

My gran fried everything with lard. And made pastry half butter and half lard.

Never overweight and lived to 89.

There is something in it, however I don't use it but I do fry in butter and try to use butter mostly

Still use lard, always make my shortcrust pastry half lard, half butter.

 

[betweenthelines]

It takes something like a shortage of sunflower oil to really bring home the true horror of war.

 

[betweenthelines]

Anyone remember the "Drought Ministers" that were appointed in the 1970's?

Won't be long before Rees Mogg gets appointed Minister for Fry-ups

 

[beardface]

Will make OSR a very lucrative crop to grow I'm short term. £1000 a tonne? Big crop of OSR might just pay the fert bill